Florida Georgia Line

0:00I know what it was last night. Dude, I went to the ice hockey rink. Yeah, how was that? You played? That's cool. Well, just me, Tom, and Tully just hit the bug around. That's cool. So can you skate? Or is it a...okay? I can do a little bit. I enjoyed it if I can. And sometimes in these arenas they have a practice rink, so we'll get in there.

0:45What do I hear? You're fishing up here? No. I'm waiting for an invite if somebody knows that. That's scary. There's your... Let me know. You guys are here for a couple more days? Two more days, I think. Yeah. We'll make some more. We'll do some. That'd be fun. I'll pick some of those. I'm down. So it's just what we do. Why does that? Or the Z? You guys are American, I guess, or switch from. Just fixing it up. Yeah, man. It's very hip-hop. I think when we wrote the song we wrote it out on our paper like that and it just stuck, man, I don't know. There's not really much of a reason for it. I feel very close to you right now. We're bonding. No, I think it just fits the song more than anything. If you listen, it's got a whole bunch of different influences. We wanted that fun with that song to take chances musically and creatively and especially in the title too.

1:32Yeah, well we were listening to the record on the way here and we were both saying, there's a lot of hip-hop influence even in day-um. I thought that was funny too. I like that. Just the cadence, the way your vocals are going, sounds like there's an 808 at times and kick drum. Yeah, man. I grew up listening to hip-hop and country and rock and everything. As songwriters, we get to incorporate that in our music. It's fun. We get outside the box and mix it up a little bit. Talk about songwriters. Every time I pick up a guitar, they gravitate to an A minor. I don't know why that is, but that's where I start. What about you guys that are a chord that you guys are gravitating to later when you pick up guitar? I actually go straight for the G. The G is just a good reminder of why we're doing it. It's a good solid G chord, man. It really can turn your day around. I understand. Absolutely. When the going gets tough, G chord.

2:19Life lessons. That's right. From the floor to the floor to the line. Talking about writing and stuff, I saw a video of you buying some recording gear for the road. Probably on this very bus. Have you figured it out? Have you started doing it? We're just working on it, man. We both have a little rig on the bus. We're trying to slow it, sort of figure out. It's a big program that takes a little bit of time, but it's fun to get back there and try to make some music. Is this more for demos? Do you actually think about, you guys have more success probably than you ever would have imagined. So are you thinking about maybe going to the production side too? I mean, it's more so to help us when we're writing and meet the work tips in. But I would say that we're very involved with the production along with Joey Moone. He's the guy that makes it happen, but he's very open to us being creative in the studio. Whether it's adding extra hooks, guitar lines, more vocals here.

3:07It's interesting. It's a pretty cool relationship that we have. I mean, he's the most talented guy we've ever met. His ear is probably half the reason that we are doing this thing. It's crazy. He's very talented. When you say adding hooks, give me an example of a port rig. I got my windows down. He called, we were in Boston. I remember we were about to go hit up some catering. He was like, I think it'd be cool if he did something before that since we're remixing. Let's add a vocal hook intro. Immediately we'd just kind of sang out that. Did it throw an iPhone with the catering in the quiet room and send it over there. He just put the effects on it, had phone with it. It's crazy that it's possible you can do it on a phone and make it at the mic.

3:52So when you have a song like that, does it change the way, not the way you approach writing, but the way maybe you approach co-writes, are people now nervous to write with you as opposed to you being nervous to write with them? I don't know, man. I don't think so. I mean, I think we all come into a room pretty confident. We've been doing it for years and a lot of the writers that we write with are huge hits on writers. You just kind of go in together with a mutual understanding that looks like this, write the best on we can and see what happens. That's a terrible question. I'm going to throw it out. Just because you said write the best on we can, what's the best on you've written so far? Well, it's got to be crude, I guess, right? That's the right answer. Maybe not the favorite that we've written, but definitely salt the most. So I guess that's the best hanger. You know, judging the quality of the song, then I guess that'd be a cruise.

4:40Where does the song that that's sitting a set? Do you want to open big, close big, throw the middle, close big? Close big, close, close, close. Especially on an opening tour, is that how it works? On any tour. Oh, so all the way, okay. Well, I don't know. So people are trying to change the set up. Yeah, right now, I mean, it's just a peek of our show. Right. Are you bringing the new one in? That's how we roll? Absolutely. We've been teasing that one for months. We did kind of a version of it pretty much a lot of last year after we wrote it out of here's the good time to the song. We did that. We kind of wrote into that for a second and then started. Tell me what this video there everyone's going to see soon. Motor crossing your big into motor growth. Yeah, man. We're big fans of any kind of action sports, you know, and then big fan of the Nitro Circus crew. We're going to take them home more with the video and so us and Luke went to Callie and

5:28shout the craziest video I think we've ever done. So we're excited about getting it out there. When are we going to see it? Do we know? Probably a few weeks, probably three or four weeks. I mean, we just saw the first day yesterday. So a little bit more time on editing and then we'll be good to go. We got a Twitter question today from Pink Geek. What new artist do you like that we might not know yet? I fear you guys are good buddies. Cole Swindell, he's a guy from Georgia and we've known him for a couple of years. He's amazing. He's single chilling it. Have you heard that one? No. That's awesome. And his next one is a song we actually wrote with him called, I hope you get lonely. So you plug in your own stuff like you did? I didn't realize, not on purpose, but I guess we are. So if y'all want to go and buy it and check it out, the link, it's right at the bottom of the video. But he's incredibly talented, his voice is unreal.

6:14We just wrote with him the other day again, wrote this is how we roll with him. So he's just incredible, you know, all across the board. Where are you guys at in writing? I mean the record has been out for what, I mean half these songs are years old at this point. Yeah, we're actually writing for the new album. We're going to start recording March. So we've been writing for quite a few months. Got a lot of songs that we love and we're ready to listen to Joey bring him to life and get him out there. Nice work. We're excited to hear him. Can't wait. We do something called Five Questions, Five Quick Questions, one more answers. Roader Studio. Road. Road. And then we're currently. Neither. Okay. Who would you go for them? Nor Johnny Cash or? Darth Brooks. Okay, now it works. He was on the tine show last night. You get a performance. When you hear a song, what usually hits you first?

7:00Leericks, Melody or them? Melody. Yeah. Melody. If someone's never heard Florida, Georgia line before, what song do they start with? Cruz. In one word, Florida, Georgia line. Party. Period. That's great. It's good. I finished systems. Nice. Thanks guys. Yeah. Very close. We're so close. I just owned it, man. I'm right here. I know. I'm right here. This is our space. I know. It's good. I liked it. Thanks guys. Let me get this fucking mic off, man. Hey now. Come on now. I know.